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02/19/2006:

"Taliban claim seven Afghan troops in Ghazni"

KABUL: Taliban claimed to have killed seven Afghan troops in southeastern Afghanistan.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousaf told Radio Tehran that the Taliban blew up a vehicle of the Afghan troops with a remote controlled landmine in Ghazni province that resulted in killing of seven Afghan troops.
paktribune.com


6 Killed in New Taleban Attacks
KANDAHAR, 17 February 2006 — Suspected Taleban rebels killed four policemen in Afghanistan while a bomb blast claimed the lives of two militia soldiers working with security forces, officials said yesterday. About 60 suspected Taleban rebels armed with machine-guns and rockets raided a police post in southwestern Nimroz province on Wednesday, killing at least one policeman and injuring four others, the provincial governor said.

Some Taleban fighters also appeared to have been killed in the almost two-hour gunfight, judging by blood and ripped clothes and shoes left at the scene, Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad said.